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  1. Re:Mod Points - You may already be a winner!!! on MSN Planning to Take on Google? · · Score: 0

    kinda like this

    Please mod parent up/funny, not sure if the humour was intentional or not (see link)!

  2. Search Add-Ons on MSN Planning to Take on Google? · · Score: 1

    I find the Google Toolbar to be quite a usefull little add-on to IE. Any time I want to search, it's there

    For another nifty Windows95+/IE5.5+ based add-on search tool, see Dave's Quick Search Deskbar. It's so easily user-customized that even *I* was able to create the search Slashdot function

    Google is the default engine, but you can set it to anything, IIRC.

    Here is the Sourceforge page for the project if you want to see the project history or contribute.

  3. Mod Points - You may already be a winner!!! on MSN Planning to Take on Google? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Based on your User-ID number, you have yet to experience the joy that is having access to the "moderator" pulldown menus

    This reminds me...what does a user's screen look like when they get mod points (screencap anyone?). Are there like, flashyshiny things, "woop-woop" noises, garish colours and a "Congratulations! You may Now Moderate!" popup?

    Just curious.

  4. Re:Problems on Widespread Use of Hydrogen May Hurt Ozone Layer · · Score: 1


    they determine leakage as about 20% based upon existing hydrogen leaks. But that uses all existing pipelines including many very old pipelines in Russian and China. In the United States existing leakage is estimated at 2%.

    The older the piping, the more susceptible it is to hydrogen embrittlement.

  5. Re:Not first on Swimming Cockroach Robot Developed · · Score: 2, Informative


    This thing almost loooks like it could gallop (walking tree harvester from Finland - apparently it can sidestep like a crab, too).

    Website

  6. In related news today... on Do Online Schools Provide A Quality Education? · · Score: 4, Interesting


    HSD official obtained Ph.D. from diploma mill

    A high-ranking career official in the Homeland Security Department apparently obtained her doctorate from a Wyoming diploma mill.

    Laura L. Callahan, now senior director in the office of department CIO Steven Cooper, states on her professional biography that she "holds a Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems from Hamilton University." Callahan, who is also president of the Association for Federal IRM and a member of the CIO Council, is commonly called by the title "Dr."

    Callahan's resume says she began her civil service career in 1984. Before joining HSD, she was deputy CIO at the Labor Department.

    Hamilton University, according to an Internet search, is located in Evanston, Wyo. It is affiliated with and supported by Faith in the Order of Nature Fellowship Church, also in Evanston. The state of Wyoming does not license Hamilton because it claims a religious exemption. Oregon has identified Hamilton University as a diploma mill unaccredited by any organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

    [...]

  7. Glurge? on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 1

    I don't think that means what you think it means.

  8. Alien Probing on Mission to Harpoon Comet is Back on Track · · Score: 1

    Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "asteroids"?

  9. Re:IE on Mozilla 1.4 RC1 · · Score: 1

    ...use crazybrowser to make it barable (it adds tab support and popup blocking by wrapping the IE rendering engine inside itself)

    Avant Browser is similar and adds Flash control and custom skins (a la Moz).

  10. Re:Art, pure and simple on Alien Case Mod · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but this one is more practical (for some people).

  11. Re:What's that other Internet Explorer thing again on Mozilla 1.4 RC1 · · Score: 1

    No, it's a giant Japanese lizard made out of pizza cheese.

  12. Re:the design of the external tank on Foam Shot Causes Damage to Shuttle Mockup · · Score: 3, Informative

    They have an "Ice Team" to check the external tanks.

    Bulk storage cryogenic tanks use vacuum space for insulation similar to the "two coaxial metal cylinders" mentioned above.

  13. Re:Geeks just want to learn on Is the Seeking of Lost Skills/Arts a Hacking Analog? · · Score: 1

    Its that same imagination that makes reading so popular within the geek community.

    That's funny, in my experience I've found that people who read a lot and enjoy learning don't make basic spelling errors and tend to check words they are unsure of and sometimes write run-on sentences.

  14. Sperm Lane-Merging on Sperm Sorting Chip · · Score: 1

    When the lanes merge, the healthy and wriggly sperm swim into the salt water stream and leave the dead and the disabled sperm behind.

    Yabbut what happens if you get one hat-wearing sperm that gets onto the ramp early and blocks all the others, left-turn signal blinking all the while?

    I wonder if the scientists have noticed Homer sperm behavior under the microscope.

  15. Re:$200 George W Bush Bill on Counterfeiting With High Resolution Inkjets · · Score: 1

    More and more, stores are posting signs saying, "Sorry, we do not accept $50 bills". I wonder if they can be sued for this.

  16. Re:Junk the Shuttle -- and ISS while you're at it. on NASA says Columbia Rescue was Possible · · Score: 1

    Mir was no picnic, either -- there was a major fire, and the collission with a resupply ship.

    "Objects in Mir are closer than they appear".

  17. Providers on Why is Hosted Disk Space So Expensive? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'd like to see some kind of online comparison of the major providers' services.

    -cost/month
    -control panel?
    -MBs
    -monthly traffic
    -how many subdomains
    -how many email/aliases
    -can I do stuff.example.com vs. example.com/stuff

  18. Punishing Amusement Park Rides on Sudden Death Experience · · Score: 1

    ...it's all fun and games until somebody's uncle pops a ventricle.

    My favorite has always been The Tooth Chipper at Colonel Tex's Traveling Carnival.

    -Bleeding Gums Murphy

  19. Re:Screw you, America on U.S. Says Canada Cares Too Much About Liberties · · Score: 1

    But just wait until we finish off Syria and North Korea and a few other small countries. After all, if Iraq looked easy, imagine how trivial invading across an undefended border would be....

    Careful, there are castles up there with Frenchmen that are not afraid to taunt you -perhaps a second time- or catapult stuff (probably farm animals).

  20. Re:Censoring 'toons on Childhood Memories Ruined by the Internet? · · Score: 1

    ...Daff's beak is on upside down and backwards and he's screaming and trailing smoke all over the place

    That would be Wabbbit Season.

  21. World's First Robot on Robot Hall of Fame · · Score: 1

    I nominate Steam Man.

  22. Re:Pournelle proves you can... on William Gibson on Blogging · · Score: 1

    Have you seen this Pournelle article parody?

  23. BLOGs on William Gibson on Blogging · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Aren't blogs just online teenage girl-type diaries to which the key has been given to everyone on the planet that has web access?

    And why is it that almost all of them use the same non-text-resizeable template, rendering words to display about the size of the period that ends this sentence.

  24. Re:A Star Trek "First"? on Enterprise Getting New Aliens, Hairdos, Weapons · · Score: 1

    What's going to happen, a trekkie is going to lose his virginity?

    Furthermore, is this "groundbreaking" season finale going to be broadcast in May?

  25. Re:Sex it up! on Enterprise Getting New Aliens, Hairdos, Weapons · · Score: 1

    I've always thoght those gay fan fiction stories were auto generated by Slashbots.